On the 4th of July the old settlers of the  county held a reunion and formed an association at Palmyra. Capt. Wm. Carson was made president. A number of the first settlers were present, including John Palmer, R. R., S. W., and W. H. Vanlandingham, all of whom came to Marion in 1818. This meeting was addressed by Hon. Thos. L. Anderson,  Henry G. Feagan, Stephen Gupton, and others.

The Old Settlers’ Association held regular meetings, annually, for some years. The following were the members, and opposite their names is the year when each one came to Missouri. Unfortunately, the year when each one came to Marion county was never given. A few of those whose names are here given including Hons. L. V. Bogy and J. S. Rollins, never resided in this county: —

Names Came to MO Name Came to MO
J. C. Bullock 1831 H. B. Dunn 1820
Henry G. Feagan 1820 J D. Feagan 1820
H. J. Durkee 1812 R. R. Vanlandingham 1818
Abraham Curtis 1833 Ben A. Spaulding 1819
Ziba Calvert 1819 O. H. P. Lear 1820
James Culbertson 1825 Levi Keithley 1817
E. B. Hayden 1822 Francis Bourne 1830
Daniel McLeod 1829 Wm. McFarland 1820
J. G. Munn 1829 John Mays 1827
John Nichols 1830 J. P. Vanlandingham 1818
Presley Carr Lane 1827 Rezin E. Coontz 1836
Amos Bibo 1835 Williamson Dunn 1829
Noah Donley 1818 James G. Longmire 1819
W. N. Shannon 1821 J. R. Baxter 1829
Thos. M. Armstrong 1819 Geo. W. Todd 1836
Theophilus Stone 1825 Geo. W. Lemmins 1835
Joseph G. Easton, native 1812 A. B. Combs 1830
John Bush 1816 John A. Devericks 1838
Ezra Lake 1823 Van Buren Lafevre 1832
Wm. Greathouse 1830 James M. Dean 1830
R. Young 1818 Wm. Knox 1839
John Baker 1831 W. Al. Gordon 1838
Robert Buchanan 1803 Wm. Moss 1816
W. C. McChristy 1828 Stephen Gupton 1820
John Palmer 1817 Catharine Greathouse 1840
John P. Turner 1818 Charlotte Feagan, wife H.G., 1819
Thomas Lear 1820 Maria Masterson 1817
Caleb H. Forquere 1826 Caroline Lyle 1817
Jacob Creath 1837 Rebecca M. Buchanan 1837
J. B. Willis 1818 Clarissa B. Fields 1819
John Graves 1817 Thos. H. King 1836
D. M. Dulaney, native 1816 John N. Foster 1830
Rufus  Mathews 1818 S. 0. Hendren 1835
A. J. Smith 1826 Lycurgus Lafon 1830
W. H. Vanlandingham 1817 Julia Ann Foster 1830
W. J. Forquere 1832 Robt. P. Towler 1830
Sam’l Lefeve and wife 1820 Wm, Longmire 1819
Samuel Miller, native 1818 Adeline. Gentry 1819
J. C. Duncan 1829 Homer H. Mitchell 1838
John S. Darr 1839 Benton Cooutz 1838
Taylor Barton 1818 R.. D. Brewington 1835
Wilson Gill 1829 Charles W. Taylor 1837
Joseph M. Willis 1829 Ellen Tavlor 1837
George W. Lane, native 1828 Chas. W. McWilliams 1832
Jacob L. Clayton 1836 James W. Lear, native 1826
John Maston 1832 Samuel Culbertson 1817
Thomas H. Benson 1838 Michael H. Keath 1826
Jasper Turner 1832 Van Swearingen 1831
S. J. Stevenson 1830 Thomas O. Reese 1838
Elvira Brown 1818 Wm Sites 1824
Geo. D. Parker 1830 Thomas M. Carroll 1823
Thomas C. Lear 1823 C. P. Parrish 1817
Edward P. Schofield 1831 John Valiant 1838
G. M. Crane 1838 John B. Valiant 1838
H. C. White 1830 Verdner Suter 1839
Mary Hawkins 1827 A. W. Rush 1824
Eddlica Fram 1828 Nathan Fuqua 1817
Thomas M. Lear 1828 S. B. Turner 1829
Elizabeth Grafford 1814 H. S. Turner 1837
Mrs. George Nailton 1835 J. W. Turner 1840
Eunice Turner 1818 C. S. Wright 1836
Susan Turner 1820 H. E. Smith, native 1832
S. W. Vanlandingham 1818 Thos. E. Thompson 1835
Thomas L. Anderson 1830 W. H. Russell 1824
Julia A. Lane 1818 John W. Russell 1836
Robert Tillson 1822 James S. Ross 1829
Z. Lear 1820 Wm T. Payne 1830
Wm. P. Cochran 1827 John R. Berryman 1828
Wm. Walden 1835 Lucien J. Easton 1832
Nancy P. Gentry 1818 James W. Easton 1832
Mary S. Hawkins 1818 John Ellis 1830
N. W. Dunn 1827 S. M. Feagan 1820
James L. Dunn 1826 John T. Redd 1834
John R. Sanford 1834 George A. Brown, native 1827
David Clark 1831 John S. Calvert 1836
Thomas Ross 1831 John A. Moss, native 1820
M. J. Bradley 1834 Hester A. Moss, native 1829
Obed Johnson 1837 John A. Heather, native 1827
Robert Shacklett 1836 Eliza Ann Heather, native 1826
J. P. Shropshire 1832 Vincent Foreman 1819
Gridley E. Pratt 1836 Drusilla Rice 1819
Edward F. Bright, native 1840 Henry Drescher 1838
Warren Shannon 1827 Wm. Neland 1829
J. D. Overton 1828 R. W. Moss 1831
John B. White 1818 Wm Leonard 1830
Spratt Scholfield 1831 George A. Nesbitt 1817
Thomas E. Hatcher 1830 Thomas T. Moss 1818
Andrew Ray 1818 P. C. Sublett 1832
James M. Bates 1834 John Sites 1827
Edward Whaley 1828 Cyrus Ritchie 1818
Benjamin Davies 1834 Wm H. Pritchett 1828
J. D. Feagan 1820 Carey Allen Boyd 1831
J. H. Shropshire 1827 Wm. B. Bryant 1837
H. D. Hollyman 1827 Stephen F. Thrasher 1819
Taylor Chandler 1832 John D. S. Dryden 1829
James S. Rollins 1830 Massy Thomas 1831
Wm. Carson 1819 Jefferson Glasscock 1820
Alethea Carson, native 1807 H. T. Fort 1820
Thomas F. Shropshire 1834 S. W. Holland 1820
John W. Mc Afee 1838 E. P. Robinson 1828
Henry S. Lipscomb 1825 J. A. Loudermilk 1819
Moses B. Gash, native 1823 A. M. Gupton, native 1829
M. C. White, native 1825 Wm. McFarland 1820
George W. Kincheloe 1832 Phil Dimmitt 1827
W. H. Walker 1819 C. M. Frazel 1825
Thomas B. White 1819 B. Gilbert 1824
H. K. Terrell 1830 O. H. Gentry 1836
Thos. H. Millan 1831 E. P. Robinson 1828
Susan F. Baker 1818 George G. Muldrow 1822
James M. Baker 1839 Wm. P. Carstarphen 1830
Catharine M. Baker 1839 Wm. H. Pepper 1831
Louisa C. Murray 1839 Louis V. Bogy, U.S. Senator, native 1813
Sarah A. Smoot 1839 John H. Keach 1830
Adeline E. Baker 1839 Charles Lake 1830
John W. O’connor 1836